A very, very important article. It is preemptive self-defense, readers!
Get the word out so the murderous false-flagging bastards can never do this again!
Not without being caught!
Because WE KNOW NOW!!! We didn't in 2001!!!!!!
Suitcase Nukes Said Unlikely to Exist
by KATHERINE SHRADER/Associated Press November 10, 2007
WASHINGTON (AP) - Members of Congress have warned about the dangers of suitcase nuclear weapons. Hollywood has made television shows and movies about them. Even the Federal Emergency Management Agency has alerted Americans to a threat - information the White House includes on its Web site.
But government experts and intelligence officials say such a threat gets vastly more attention than it deserves. These officials said a true suitcase nuke would be highly complex to produce, require significant upkeep and cost a small fortune.
Counterproliferation authorities do not completely rule out the possibility that these portable devices once existed. But they do not think the threat remains.
Vahid Majidi, the assistant director of the FBI's Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate:
"The suitcase nuke is an exciting topic that really lends itself to movies. No one has been able to truly identify the existence of these devices.''
Yet Hollywood has seized on the threat. For example, the Fox thriller "24'' devoted its entire last season to Jack Bauer's hunt for suitcase nukes in Los Angeles. Government officials have played up the threat, too.
So we will eat that pile of shit when it happens? NO WAY!
Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., once said at a hearing that he thought the least likely threat was from an intercontinental ballistic missile:
"Perhaps the most likely threat is from a suitcase nuclear weapon in a rusty car on a dock in New York City.''
In a FEMA guide on terrorist disasters that is posted in part on the White House's Web site, the agency warns that terrorists' use of a nuclear weapon would "probably be limited to a single smaller 'suitcase' weapon.''
The paper says:
"The strength of such a weapon would be in the range of the bombs used during World War II. The nature of the effects would be the same as a weapon delivered by an intercontinental missile, but the area and severity of the effects would be significantly more limited.''
All a bunch of SHIT LIES!!!!!!!!
The idea of portable nuclear devices was not a new one. In the 1950s and 1960s, the U.S. made the first ones, known as the Special Atomic Demolition Munition. It was a "backpack nuke'' that could be used to blow up dams, tunnels or bridges. While one person could lug it on his back, it had to be placed by a two-man team.
Are they ever shoveling fast and furious or what?
These devices never were used and now exist - minus their explosive components - only in a museum. Suitcase nukes have been a separate problem. They attracted considerable public attention in 1997, thanks to a "60 Minutes'' interview and other public statements from retired Gen. Alexander Lebed, once Russia's national security chief.
Lebed said the separatist government in Chechnya had portable nuclear devices. He changed his story several times.
Even more details emerged in the summer of 1998, when former Russian military intelligence officer Stanislav Lunev - a defector in the U.S. witness protection program - wrote in his book that Russian agents were hiding suitcase nukes around the U.S. for use in a possible future conflict.
I am really siiiiiiick of being feeeeeeeed shiiiiiiiiiitttt!
So will you FUCKING STOP IT?!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In a 2004 interview with the Kremlin's Federal News Service, Colonel-General Viktor Yesin, former head of the Russian strategic rocket troops, said a true suitcase nuke would be too expensive for most countries to produce and would not last more than several months because the nuclear core would decompose so quickly.
Some members of Congress remained convinced that the suitcase nuke problem persists. Perhaps chief among these lawmakers was Curt Weldon, a GOP representative from Pennsylvania who lost his seat in 2006. Weldon was known for carrying around a mock-up of a suitcase nuke made with a briefcase, foil and a pipe.
Weldon gone because of Able Danger. HE KNOWS about 9/11!
A Hollywood-esque suitcase nuke would look like: a case about 24 inches by 10 inches by 12 inches, weighing less than 50 pounds, that one person could carry. It would contain a device that could cause a devastating blast.
And that's the only place you will find them -- in Hollywood!
Nuclear devices are either plutonium, which comes from reprocessing the nuclear material from reactors, or uranium, which comes from gradually enriching that naturally found element.
It would take about 22 pounds of plutonium or 130 pounds of uranium to create a nuclear detonation. Although uranium is considered easier for terrorists to obtain, it would be too heavy for one person to lug around in a suitcase.
Plutonium would require the cooperation of a state with a plutonium reprocessing program. It seems highly unlikely that a country would knowingly cooperate with terrorists because the device would bear the chemical fingerprints of that government.
Wouldn't hurt during a frame-up though, right?
That means the fissile material probably would have to be stolen. It is very difficult for that much material to walk away. There is one more wrinkle: Nuclear devices require a lot of maintenance because the material that makes them so deadly also can wreak havoc on their electrical systems.
In the case of suitcase nukes, one official said, U.S. experts do not have 100 percent certainty that they have a handle on the Russian arsenal. The Homeland Security Department is planning to spend more than $1 billion on radiation detectors at ports of entry.
But government auditors found that the devices cannot distinguish between benign radiation sources, such as kitty litter, and potentially dangerous ones, including highly enriched uranium.
The big problem is not a fancy suitcase nuke, but rather a terrorist cell with nuclear material that has enough knowledge to make an improvised device.
How big would that be? Like SUV-sized. Way bigger than a suitcase."
They never fucking stop, do they?!
It's just push, push, push the bullshit!
